Corbett: No Bonusgate Arrests Before Elex Day.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett ....... will not file
any new charges in the public-cash-for-political gain scandal
known as
“Bonusgate,” until after the Nov. 4 election.
“You all know that this is a grand jury investigation. The grand jury
will sit for one more week before the election,” Corbett said in a
speech before the Pennsylvania Press Club this afternoon. “I know this
investigation very well. I know that my office cannot present to the
grand jury, in that one week, all of the testimony and other evidence
that will be necessary to complete the next phase of the investigation.Corbett’s office has so far arrested a dozen current and former House
Democrats and charged them with multiple counts of theft, conflict of
interest and conspiracy. They are slated to appear before a Dauphin
County judge for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 7.Corbett, a Republican running for re-election, has faced accusations that his office has only targeted Democrats in the probe.
In his speech this afternoon, Corbett said “those accusations are
wrong. But I accept the fact that they are inevitable – especially in
an election year.”Corbett said he could only respond to charges that he’d politicized the
accusations “by repeating what I have said so many times already: I,
and the career lawyers in my office, are conducting this investigation
as thoroughly, fairly, honestly, and as quickly as we can.”